From the CRAFT Flickr pool: user seschloss added a photo of her friend Josh’s shoes with custom made uppers (and recycled sneaker soles). He does a pretty thorough walkthrough of his process (ups and downs) on the Sewer Sewist blog, and even if the glue’s a bit funky around the edges, I still think these […]
I featured Jerome Demer’s ingenious little one-motor walker in my book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots. I’ve been hoping he’d put up an Instructable and he finally has. This is a bit of a finicky mechanical build, but worth the effort. It uses a standard BEAM bicore circuit as its brain (via the 74HCT240 […]
This little guy scares the daylights out of me: a Roomba topped with an animatronic chimp head. No purpose is claimed, but I think it’s safe to say it’s for scaring pets and children. Does it remind anyone else of that episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force where they put Carl’s head on an RC […]
Saw these on Modern Craft: Holly Wales is a talented illustrator (check out her “Household Objects” series) who also creates fun assemblages and collage work. I love her animals made from tape.
Patti @ MAKE points us to two great free papercraft animal patterns: Papercraft Paradise has links to a couple really neat paper models. Konicaminolta has a wonderful fiddler crab model. There are 2 PDFs – one has the parts, the other has instructions. And Kirin has a cute polar bear papercraft with a wobbly head; […]
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir is an art car project by Richard Carter, John Schroeter (Houston, TX), and some thirty volunteers. The car incorporates 250 singing Billy Bass animatronic fish and 250 mechanical lobsters, including a conductor that’s perched on a boom over the hood of the 1984 Volvo sedan the choir calls home. After the […]
Spotted on Apartment Therapy SF: KnitSonya gave these tired, old movie theater seats a gorgeous makeover using a colorful array of Marimekko fabrics.
